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And when Night veils the Skies, obsequious Day,
Re-entring, plunges from the starry way.
She from her Lamp, with beaming Radiance bright,
Pours o'er th' expanded Earth a flood of Light:
But Night, by Sleep attended, rides in Shades,
Brother of Death, and all that breathes invades:
From [1]her foul Womb they sprung, resistless Pow'rs,
Nurs'd in the Horrours of Tartarean Bow'rs,
Remote from Day, when with her flaming Wheels
She mounts the Skies, or paints the Western Hills:
With downy footsteps Sleep in silence glides
O'er the wide Earth, and o'er the spacious Tides;
The Friend of Life! Death unrelenting bears
An iron Heart, and laughs at human Cares;
She makes the mouldring Race of Man her Prey,
And ev'n th' immortal Pow'rs detest her sway.
Re-entring, plunges from the starry way.
She from her Lamp, with beaming Radiance bright,
Pours o'er th' expanded Earth a flood of Light:
But Night, by Sleep attended, rides in Shades,
Brother of Death, and all that breathes invades:
From [1]her foul Womb they sprung, resistless Pow'rs,
Nurs'd in the Horrours of Tartarean Bow'rs,
Remote from Day, when with her flaming Wheels
She mounts the Skies, or paints the Western Hills:
With downy footsteps Sleep in silence glides
O'er the wide Earth, and o'er the spacious Tides;
The Friend of Life! Death unrelenting bears
An iron Heart, and laughs at human Cares;
She makes the mouldring Race of Man her Prey,
And ev'n th' immortal Pow'rs detest her sway.
Thus
- ↑ Of Night.
